franchise-star-trek-tng-technical-manual1

ULfHIUtL/ltKIVIIIUHLUStThe aluminum surface wafer is chemically bonded ontoa triaxial optical display crystal membrane, which serves as ahigh resolution graphic display medium. Monocrystal microwaveguidesat 1.8 mm intervals provide electro plasmasystem power transmission to the upper sensor matrix andtransducer layers.the panel nanoprocessors include sufficient nonvolatilememory to permit system operation, even in the absence ofmain computer support.The substrate of the control surface is composed ofmicrofoamed polyduranide sheeting, which provides structuralintegrity to the assembly. Incorporated into this layer isa matrix of optical nanoprocessors that permit the display surfacesheeting to be self-configuring, once addressed and initializedby the local processor node. For redundancy's sake,3.3.1 Display panel layers1 Clear tripolymer coatingImbedded sensor matrixData crystal membraneMonocrystal waveguidePolyduranide sheetingOptical nanoprocessorWe incorporated the concept of software-definable, task-specific panel layout into our controls because Mike thought it a logicalway of simplifying designs that would otherwise have been nightmarishly complex. The basic idea is that the panelsautomatically reconfigure themselves to suit the specific task at hand. A side benefit we discovered is this gave our actors muchmore freedom in hitting controls to accomplish various tasks. (Even though our cast tries to get things right, there are numerousoccasions when a particular shot will require an actor to hit a button on a specific area of a panel, which may not reflect ouroriginal design for that panel.) Variable-layout control panels mean that the button that fires phasers this week is not necessarilythe same button that fires them next week.